Post-Season Results 2019

Our finish to the 2019 post-season, with quite a few unexpected surprises! See how all this shook out for our 2020 RD1 draft slots, right here!

PLAYOFFS
We have a new champ to crown but we'll cover that in more detail later! For the entire third round of the playoffs, every matchup ended in an upset -- including our championship game. In short, Sour Snails took the title, giving themselves the last pick in 2020 RD1, while Swamp Dragons will get the *9 draft slot for their finals appearance, as a balm to heal the wound of losing.

#6 seeded Team Spade absolutely annihilated #5 Squirtle Squad for a three game WLW record and the rights to the *10 selection, and also backed up their boast from their podcast episode. They finish the 2019 season as the third-best team in SlamNation.

And in a shocking turn, defending champions Chunky Monkeys couldn't take one win all playoffs -- this loss came against Fat Jubas -- and went LLL in three weeks, and will thus will draft in the second-to-last slot, *15, for 2020. Is the Monkey reign already over?

#8 Fob Stars squeaked out a narrow win over #4 Funk Coalition behind John Collins' unexpected burst of BLK, giving Fob a LWW record for the post-season, which will earn them the *12 pick next season. Pulling off two big wins against two higher seeds was exactly why Fob Stars made it into the playoffs, to play giant killer!

TOILET BOWL
We already knew who would draft *1 next year as top-seeded So Buckets was destined for a *3 pick, so most of the drama was between who would win *2 between IL Conceived and Another Bad Creation. After a devastating RD2 loss, there a minute where IL Conceived seemed to throw in the towel by benching Donovan Michell but then they came roaring back to competition. Alas, ABC made all the right moves along the way and our #15 seeded team will earn a highly coveted *2 2020 RD1 pick by going WLW, with IL Conceived dropping down to the *4 draft slot.

There was another upset in Toilet Bowl land, where #11 LA Buffy took out #10 Team Thien and will get to now draft in the top-five after a very close win, powered by R.O.Y. candidate Trae Young. This has to count as a big win for Buffy as they fended off a slew of late-season injuries. As for Thien, injuries has been their bugaboo for two years running...

As for our two last place teams, Hilt the Stilt took down Team Cameltoe as neither hit the max cap. So, um, they "earned" their *7/8 selections. And oh yeah, congrats to So Buckets for a Toilet Bowl title, but we'll cover that in a separate article as well!